Journal x Stories

Last weekend, our old youth ministry group reunited over brunch and coffee. Some of them have been meeting once in a while these past years but I’m one of the minority who finally showed up this year. Yay to rebuilding friendships! I’m still not a huge fan of big group gatherings but it was surprisingly… Continue reading →

Hello! Last month, I started a series on my personal path to working from home as a freelancer. I meant to finish this series in four consecutive weeks but I got sick. Anyway, I’ve talked about the personal reasons that led me to explore online jobs + the deeper reasons behind this booming field which I processed along… Continue reading →

Hello again. Last time (read it here), I shared how I made sense of the growing number of people choosing to explore and thrive in the growing online community of business and professional services. Offline, friends would ask me what made me switch to this career path. I’m putting this out here as a compiled… Continue reading →

Fresh out of college, one of my then-youth leaders asked me, “why do you want to be a diplomat? What is it that you want to do? What is it that you believe and think you are called to do?” The clueless but full of conviction younger version of myself only knew to answer that… Continue reading →

I know, I know. This is the nth time you are seeing me say “I got a new site, I’ll blog again!” For the past 3-5 years, a part of me wished I could literally start over but life doesn’t roll that way. So instead, I kept starting new sites hoping it would inspire me… Continue reading →

Life x Style

Finding blog inspo from one of my few friends who get what blogging means to us, I’m joining Ate Gil in her Friday Finds series. I’m not gonna promise that this is going to be every Friday as I would only be able to do this once a month *cross-fingers*. For the not so millennial-ish,… Continue reading →

Not a second bit was wasted on mere motion. As a short film, it made sure every bitrate carried a certain emotion, or sometimes a combination of two. For a story about people with impaired vision, the characters’ eyes spoke so much of words only the soul could read and understand. Watching the story unfold… Continue reading →

There are movies made to entertain, made to make the viewers swoon, made to inspire, made to talk about the past, made to display a few people’s fantasies about the future. Then there’s BuyBust, a movie made like a mirror to show us how much mess we are in these days. BuyBust is now on… Continue reading →

Attention my reader friends! And my not-so reader friends (yes! you might find this worth trying by the end of this post). I just discovered Scribd’s bigger, better and hotter version of itself. See, Scribd used to be just that one better than Wikipedia Google page result for presentations, transcripts and research papers that can… Continue reading →

I’m not sure how many of my friends still don’t know that I’ve left my job that was based in Tarlac and I’m back in Dasma (for good). For over six months now, I’ve discovered the joys of working from home and I’m not sure you can bribe me to find a job that would… Continue reading →

Open Letters x Published Views

As with blogs come year-ender lists – things we’re thankful for, Christmas wishes, new year goals, etc. As for me, I’m starting off with a list of things we should stop doing as we grow a year older. And by we, I mean I’m the first to absorb and put these into practice. I admit that these lessons came to me because I’m the first to be found guilty doing these. … Continue reading →

Four months ago, I helped a friend with a work plan she has to present to her bosses and colleagues. Her topic had me going through my college files and folders to look for something that could help her. I didn’t know that browsing through old reviewers and projects could hit me with waves of… Continue reading →

Hello, my name is Joan and I have lived half of my life inside my head, the other half feels like a dream. I'm convinced that my bloodstream is heavily caffeinated, have no Facebook app on my phone, and have set times of the year where I ask my family to let go of stuff they have not used in the past six months or so. Here, I share stories and thoughts as I process them from the inside out.

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